Example sentences of "[modal v] have be [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to say that the half-yearly payments were to continue till the whole sum of £2,090 19s. , ‘ and interest thereon , ’ should have been fully paid and satisfied , would be to introduce very important words into the agreement which are not there , and of which I can not say that they are necessarily implied . |
| 2 | It must have been either forged or welded to the cap or fitted hot and allowed to cool into position . |
| 3 | Evidently the section breaker at Selby Road , to separate the two undertakings , must have been temporarily bridged and current drawn from Croydon since the line opened without ceremony immediately following receipt of the certificate . |
| 4 | The sentences must have been previously drilled and mastered . |
| 5 | The RUC with new Pipe Major Mark Faloon must have been well encouraged when their ‘ C ’ set took third on 60 . |
| 6 | In ancient times this magnificent monument must have been much admired and it is hardly surprising that Imhotep was remembered as a great man and eventually became a god . |
| 7 | In view of the widespread discussion ( and agreement ) about IT skill shortages during 1984 , it might have been reasonably expected that very high proportions of Advanced Course students would have jobs to go to at the end of their courses . |
| 8 | Mills , you never know , might have been somehow involved and that might be the reason why he was under surveillance . ’ |
| 9 | If Europe had not suffered so many years of religious cruelty and persecution , the home-grown cats might have been better developed and ready to compete with the extravagant foreigners . |
| 10 | The foundations might have been securely laid if he had got to Walsingham . |
| 11 | Such an outcome would have caused a great deal of trouble for the council which could have been largely avoided if the resolution had been directly challenged soon after it was made under Ord. 53 . |
| 12 | There could have been further scoring but for the woodwork which firstly denied Joe Miller after he had beaten Dariusz Wdowczyk and John Collins . |
| 13 | There could have been further scoring but for the woodwork which firstly denied Joe Miller after he had beaten Dariusz Wdowczyk and John Collins . |
| 14 | A few inches either way and police officers could have been seriously injured or even killed . |
| 15 | More people could have been seriously hurt if a passenger had n't leapt forward and slammed on the brakes stopping the coach hitting a wall . |
| 16 | Police said that the motive for the shooting was not clear , adding that it could have been politically motivated or a crime of passion . |
| 17 | The term includes : ( i ) any income chargeable to income tax by deduction at source or otherwise ( first limb ) and any income which would have been chargeable to income tax if it had been received in the United Kingdom by a person domiciled , resident and ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom ( second limb ) ( s681(1) ( a ) ) ; [ ( ii ) where the amount of the income of any body corporate has been apportioned ( ie shortfalled ) under Schedule 16 to FA 1972 or could have been so apportioned if the body corporate were incorporated and resident in any part of the United Kingdom , so much of the income of the body corporate for that year or period as is equal to the amount which has been or could have been so apportioned to the trustees of or a beneficiary under the settlement ( s681(1) ( b ) ) [ abolished in relation to income of bodies corporate for accounting periods beginning after 31 March 1989 by FA 1989 , Sched 17 , Part V ] ] . |
| 18 | Spectator sport may have been partially commercialized but it never became a capitalist leisure enterprise . |
| 19 | According to research conducted by Strathclyde educational psychologists , statistical evidence indicated that several dozen Asian and black children may have been unfairly designated as having severe or profound learning difficulties . |
| 20 | Some may have been divided into flats while others may have been newly modernised or renovated . |
| 21 | The politician may have been democratically elected but the politician does not have the same experience as the career official . |
| 22 | The evidence about the constructs of another person is indirect and may have been deliberately obscured or falsified . |
| 23 | Five hundred posts which would have been either created or protected here will now go overseas . |
| 24 | He himself would have been desperately pushed if he had had to manage on two-thirds of his salary until Christmas every year . |
| 25 | If she had been an ordinary teacher , trying to teach an ordinary sedentary subject like history or Latin , she would have been mercilessly flouted and mocked , but as it was she managed to get by . |
| 26 | Under normal conditions a male dominance hierarchy would have been previously established and only the dominant male would have had access to the receptive female . |
| 27 | The flakes of mud would have been carefully removed and put in the rubbish bin in the kitchen . |
| 28 | If organised revolt was simmering in the Holy Land , its chances of success would have been immensely augmented if it could be synchronised , say , with uprisings by Jewish communities across the length and breadth of the Roman Empire . |
| 29 | In England there was to have been a four-year transitional period , commencing in 1990 , during which the community charge would have been gradually introduced and rates phased out , but the Secretary of State , in response to pressure from his own party , agreed late in 1987 that with the exception of a handful of London boroughs ( where some flexibility remains ) the community charge should be introduced throughout England in 1990 without any phasing-in period . |
| 30 | ‘ The removal or the retention of a child is to be considered wrongful where — ( a ) it is in breach of rights of custody attributed to a person , an institution or any other body , either jointly or alone , under the law of the state in which the child was habitually resident immediately before the removal or retention ; and ( b ) at the time of removal or retention those rights were actually exercised , either jointly or alone , or would have been so exercised but for the removal or retention . |